Suugestions for a Turn Based Game

Solar2D Game Networking
#21

No offence meant…

This would be a good starting point (bit of a heavy read though) - https://docs2.gamesparks.com/getting-started/creating-a-game/corona-setup.html

And here is a full Corona tutorial for a turn-based tic tac toe game - http://appwarp.shephertz.com/game-development-center/corona-realtime-turn-based-game-tutorial/

The second link should really help.

#22

https://github.com/scottrules44/gameKitTicTacToe

https://github.com/scottrules44/gpgsTicTacToe

^here are some gamenetwork examples

#23

Awesome… exactly what I was looking for! 

Love this community!

-B

#24

What I would be interested in reading about is how a turn based game in the style of Ruzzle, WordFeud etc. handles the multiplayer part.

I am pretty sure they work as a combination of push notifications, socket connections and game state updates from the backend.

Do any of the backend services have this kind of system setup already for easy implementation?

Did anyone come across tutorials or articles on this topic?

Thanks.

#25

Hi!

Is that TicTacToe example working? We have problems when we used the same kind of matchmaking in our project.

#26

It works last time I checked.

#27

Hi again!

I looked into your code and I noticed that in line 236 there was typed (eevent.payload) is this right or should it be (event.payload)?

#28

yes, will fix

#29

Actually, it shouldn’t.

The plugins table is a sub-table of the “settings” table:

settings = {     plugins = {     }, }

should be valid.

Rob

#30

Sorry for the delay in seeing this post! Hopefully the flowing information will be of some use to you, or anyone else who searches for similar info.

Big thanks to @Brent and @SGS for referencing GameSparks in this post

 

@byron5
With GameSparks we can hopefully get your turn-based game up and running!

You can pick up our SDK with a handy guide on how to install it from here: https://docs.gamesparks.com/sdk-center/

 

As @SGS mentioned you can follow this tutorial on how to set up GameSparks with Corona: https://docs.gamesparks.com/getting-started/creating-a-game/corona-setup.html

Here is another tutorial on how to create an asynchronous tic tac toe game and some basic matchmaking through GameSparks: https://docs.gamesparks.com/tutorials/game-engine-integrations/corona-1v1-asynchronous-match.html

 

@ojnab
As for push notifications I think that this tutorial will be of good use to you:
https://docs.gamesparks.com/tutorials/social-features/configuring-firebase-cloud-messaging.html

This tutorial uses Google Firebase and it will guide you on how to get Firebase set up through GameSparks and how to get your game to allow push notifications to be sent to your players on your behalf. Other than that our tic tac toe tutorial is a really good example of how to create a turn based game with a basic matchmaking system.

Also if anyone needs any help regarding GameSparks please feel free to ask in the forums or contact us on our support page!
https://support.gamesparks.net/support/home

 

Thanks,

Clare

#31

Hi!

Is that TicTacToe example working? We have problems when we used the same kind of matchmaking in our project.

#32

It works last time I checked.

#33

Hi again!

I looked into your code and I noticed that in line 236 there was typed (eevent.payload) is this right or should it be (event.payload)?

#34

yes, will fix

#35

Actually, it shouldn’t.

The plugins table is a sub-table of the “settings” table:

settings = {     plugins = {     }, }

should be valid.

Rob